Intersindical Canaria joins the demonstration on April 20 that will be held in the Canary Islands, an initiative against tourist overcrowding. From Intersindical Canaria, "we advocate, in addition to the moratorium and the tourist tax, for a Residence Law that allows, on the one hand, to reduce the annual number of visitors by half and that this industry is exploited from the Canary Islands with a self-centered circular economy model, and on the other hand, as it already does in other territories, to begin to establish the bases to prevent the dangerous population increase from continuing."
"But it is not only that 15 million tourists plunder our resources and pollute our seas while the benefits remain in foreign hands and for our people it is unemployment, poverty and job insecurity and the very poor salaries," they have specified from the union.
"Our Canary Nation has exceeded its carrying capacity," they have specified. The "open door" policy, especially to European citizens, who perceive us, by virtue of the submissive campaigns of the CC government, as the spa of Europe, has to end through the "regulation of the entry of foreigners and the policies of access to housing and scarce employment", but, in addition, "the consideration of the Canary Islands as a place of banishment for migration has to end". The exercise of "undisguised racism that all the autonomous communities of the Spanish State exert, refusing to welcome the migrant minors stored in the Canary Islands, is one more example of colonial treatment," they added.
"Our future and our life are at stake. Therefore, we call on all workers and the general population to join the demonstrations that will take place on April 20, 2024," they urged the citizens of the Canary Islands.
"Since pre-constitutional times, and giving continuity to the colonial extractivist activity that the Canary Islands have suffered for the last 500 years, a suicidal development model was designed by the oligarchies of the archipelago, at the service of the Spanish state and international interests. This is what we are seeing. Many of the macro-projects were delayed by citizen pressure. We must highlight struggles such as Veneguera in Gran Canaria, the Towers of Vilaflor, the Port of Granadilla, the second runway of the Reina Sofía Airport, the closure of the Insular Ring in Tenerife, the fallacy and the false ecologism that they do with the declaration of Green Islands, have been nothing more than steps forward towards that destructive model.
Now, the "vertiginous reactivation of harmful projects paralyzed on the basis of the persistent and arduous struggle of civil society", by this "government, Cabildos and City Councils, of Coalición Canaria and Partido Popular and the estimable collaboration of the PSOE, is highly dangerous for the survival of this fragile and limited territory."
They added that "some works such as the hotel in La Tejita, Cuna del Alma in El Puertito de Adeje, Armeñime or the motor circuit in Tenerife, the Chira-Soria hydroelectric plant in Gran Canaria, the hotel complex called Ecoresort in La Pavona and the Dichosa Wellnness Clinic, both on the island of La Palma or the new mining extraction project in Fuerteventura, are once again attacking biodiversity, aboriginal heritage, water resources, soil, our seas and food sovereignty."
In addition, "they abound in tourist monoculture through a predatory development model that implies an increase in the unbearable population burden both from the ecological and climate change point of view and from the point of view of public services, at the limit of saturation, not to mention the problem of housing for those of us who live here," they concluded.
